Unreleased Sounds returns - Imaginary Beatles in the 70s

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Years ago, I made a forum about my hobby of making my own versions of unreleased or unfinished albums or creating imaginary projects, and I kinda wanted to return to that. I have been playing around with my "what if the Beatles didn't break up?" albums and I wanted to post them here.

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APPLE JAM - 1970
A stripped back type of album, akin to what the Get Back sessions were meant to sound like.

Side 1
1. Instant Karma!
2. That Would Be Something
3. All Things Must Pass
4. Every Night
5. I Found Out
6. Beaucoups of Blues

Side 2
7. Beware of Darkness
8. Remember
9. Junk
10. Isolation
11. Maybe I'm Amazed
12. Apple Scruffs
13. Hot as Sun/Glasses

NOTE:
The version of Instant Karma is take 1 from the Plastic Ono Band set
The version of All Things Must Pass is from Early Takes: Volume One
Glasses is an edit of Hot as Sun/Glasses


SINGLES:
Instant Karma! (We All Shine On!) b/w Oo You
Maybe I'm Amazed b/w Well Well Well

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IMAGINE - 1971
The best of the imaginary albums; just all four at the the top of their game.

Side 1
1. Too Many People
2. Art of Dying
3. Jealous Guy
4. Dear Boy
5. It Don't Comes Easy
6. The Back Seat of My Car

Side 2
7. Imagine
8. What Is Life
9. How?
10. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
11. Gimme Some Truth
12. Isn't It a Pity

NOTE:
The version of Isn't It a Pity on the album is Version 2. Version 1 becomes a single.

SINGLES:
(Non-Album Pre-Imagine singles)
Another Day b/w Oh Yoko!
Power to the People b/w Smile Away

Imagine b/w Heart of the Country
Isn't It a Pity [single version] b/w Coochy Coochy

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THE CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH - 1971

Gonna leave this space here for the imaginary concert album, making use of the original George album, John's Live in New York stuff, and some of Paul's Wings Across America. Still a work in progress, which would also require some editing.

SINGLES:
Bangla Desh b/w Happy X-mas (War Is Over) [double A]

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LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD - 1972
This one comes with a story, and two different versions. The story is the group wanted to take wildly different directions and the sessions got chaotic and Allen Klein went ahead a tracklisted and released the album much to the chagrin of the band, which lead to it getting harsh reviews and controversy. So much so, that the album was recalled and retracked, to meet the groups liking, though not to music critics liking. The last version is the "official" version that would appear on future CD and digital releases, while the left off songs would end up as Past Masters tracks.

VERSION 1
Side 1
1. Back Off Boogaloo
2. Bip Bop
3. John Sinclair
4. Tomorrow
5. The Day the World Gets Round
6. Woman Is the N****r of the World

Side 2
7. Hi Hi Hi
8. I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama
9. Deep Blue
10. C Moon
11. Living in the Material World
12. New York City


VERSION 2
Side 1
1. Back Off Boogaloo
2. It's So Hard
3. The Day the World Gets Round
4. Bip Bop
5. New York City
6. Living in the Material World

Side 2
7. Hi Hi Hi
8. Crippled Inside
9. Little Woman Love
10. Deep Blue
11. John Sinclair
12. Tomorrow

SINGLES:
(pre-album singles)
Give Ireland Back to the Irish b/w The Luck of the Irish

Back Off Boogaloo b/w Hi Hi Hi

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PHOTOGRAPH - 1973
'73 becomes a comeback year for the group as they come at with three #1 hits all this year!

Side 1
1. Big Barn Bed
2. Mind Games
3. When the Night
4. One Day (At a Time)
5. Be Here Now
6. Photograph

Side 2
7. Bring on the Lucie (Freda Peeple)
8. Get on the Right Thing
9. Who Can See It
10. Single Pigeon
11. Out the Blue
12. Little Lamb Dragonfly

NOTES:
Ideally, Big Barn Bed would crossfade into Mind Games, as it does with My Love on Red Rose Speedway

SINGLES:
(Pre-album)
Live and Let Die b/w Don't Let Me Wait Too Long
My Love b/w I Know I Know

Mind Games b/w Your Sixteen (You're Beautiful and Your Mine)
Photograph b/w One More Kiss

(Post-album)
Give Me Love Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) b/w Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)

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BAND ON THE RUN - 1974

Side 1
1. Band on the Run
2. So Sad
3. Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
4. Jet
5. Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
6. Junior's Farm

Side 2
7. (It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna
8. Dark Horse
9. #9 Dream
10. Maya Love
11. Let Me Roll It
12. Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)

NOTES:
Junior's Farm is the DJ edit
Let Me Roll It would be an edit which would shave about a minute+ off the song

SINGLES:
Whatever Gets You Thru the Night b/w Helen Wheels
Band on the Run b/w Ding Dong, Ding Dong

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ROCKSHOW - 1975
This is a relatively new tracklist, and a large one; a DOUBLE ALBUM of material from 1974/75

Side 1
1. Venus and Mars/Rock Show
2. Old Dirt Road
3. Love In Song
4. Tired of Midnight Blues
5. What You Got

Side 2
6. Call Me
7. Scared
8. Letting Go
9. Simply Shady

Side 3
10. Call Me Back Again
11. Grey Cloudy Lies
12. Bless You
13. Listen to What the Man Said
14. Ya Ya (Interlude)

Side 4
15. Going Down on Love
16. You Gave Me the Answer
17. Steel and Glass
18. The Answer's at the End
19. Snookeroo
20. Venus and Mars (reprise)

NOTES:
Any tracks, particularly off of Venus and Mars, are either crossfaded or faded out when appropriate
Venus and Mars/Rock Show is the single version

SINGLES:
Listen to What the Man Said b/w No No Song

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OLDIES BUT MOLDIES - 1976
The last Beatles album of the 70s until John goes into his househusband phase. It is a last minute album created as part of the lawsuit with Morris Levy. Sessions were carried out solo by Lennon since 73. When Levy took the recording and made the album Roots, John and Apple sued with an injunction and decided to put out their album of covers, this time with all the members of the Beatles. The other members, like Paul and George, were not pleased to be doing a covers album. Paul only recorded one track and gave two other previously recorded tracks from past album sessions (both featuring his wife Linda and Beatles session musician Denny Laine which would eventually lead him to form the band Wings). John was eventually preparing to become a dad. By the end of the sessions, only Ringo was really partipating. Apple eventually folded into EMI at the end of 75 and Oldies But Moldies came out the next year as a "budget label" album. Nothing would comes from the Beatles for the next 4 years.

Side 1
1. Be-Bop-A-Lula
2. Hey Baby
3. Stand by Me
4. Bye Bye Love
5. Tragedy
6. You Can't Catch Me

Side 2
7. Baby Face
8. Only You (and You Alone)
9. True Love
10. Ya Ya
11. Love Is Strange
12. Just Because

NOTES:
Only You would be an edit made to be a duet between Ringo and John.

SINGLES:
(released back in 1975) Stand by Me b/w This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)

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SKYWRITING BY WORD OF MOUTH - 1980
The band is all energized and comes back into the studio for a comeback album, unaware that it would tragically be the last Beatles album.

Side 1
1. (Just Like) Starting Over
2. Wanderlust
3. Wrack My Brain
4. Cleanup Time
5. Dream Away
6. The Pound Is Sinking
7. Watching the Wheels

Side 2
8. Tug of War
9. Nobody Told Me
10. Life Itself
11. Ballroom Dancing
12. Tears of the World
13. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

NOTES:
The Double Fantasy songs are all the stripped versions. Although the beginning of Starting Over and Beautiful Boy would have the same bell opening as the album versions. The single version of Starting Over is the original album version.
The last note of Dream Away cuts immediately into the coin noises from The Pound Is Sinking.

SINGLES:
(Just Like) Starting Over b/w Take It Away

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1981
All Those Years Ago b/w Grow Old with Me
As a memorial for their fallen band member, the three remaining Beatles record a tribute song, and it is b-sided with a home recording of Lennon tracked with a George Martin score. A fitting end.